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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Things currently stopping "YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP"

  • Anti cheat
  • Adobe
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Nvidia
  • No availability of Linux PCs in physical stores

These but to a lesser degree

  • AutoCAD
  • Obscure research/academic/industrial software
  • Music production software
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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Good summary.

    I’ve been working a while and think the latter things combined with the unfamiliarity of MDM/IT management tools in Linux has stopped much wider adoption.

    So many industries just MUST run a few key apps that were designed and battle tested in windows long ago, as in wet lab science, manufacturing, and medicine to name a few I’ve seen.

    Also stability (sorry but it’s hard to beat a MacBook).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    It's so frustrating that I can't run office software. But why is adobe a problem?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Adobe has a huge presence in the creative industry. Lots of professionals (read majority) can't use a FOSS graphics suite because Adobe is an industry standard. And Adobe cannot run on anything except Windows because (I forgot the exact article) certain portions of Adobe are highly entangled with Windows, and porting it to Linux makes no financial sense.

    Before others talk about the alternatives, Adobe still has huge inertia. It will be years before they are dethroned, assuming they continue to fuckup.

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